A 29-year-old mother who has already lost two children prior to this did not give a second thought to leaving an infant with a fever alone for almost a day? Is there no maternal instinct in this person at all?

I pity any kid of hers that manages to survive childhood. How messed up are they going to be?

phlegmmo:A 29-year-old mother who has already lost two children prior to this did not give a second thought to leaving an infant with a fever alone for almost a day? Is there no maternal instinct in this person at all?

I pity any kid of hers that manages to survive childhood. How messed up are they going to be?

Messed up? Any kid who survives with a mother like her is probably blessed with some sort of survival superpowers. He will probably have to be a demigod or wizard.

phlegmmo:A 29-year-old mother who has already lost two children prior to this did not give a second thought to leaving an infant with a fever alone for almost a day? Is there no maternal instinct in this person at all?

I pity any kid of hers that manages to survive childhood. How messed up are they going to be?

Dunno, but I wouldn't fark with him either way; that'd be one tough mofo.

xanadian:Benevolent Misanthrope: Takahashi, whose first child died a few days after birth and who lost another son in a fall from an apartment balcony, told police she had been using chatrooms, media reported.

OK - the first one was not her fault, obviously. The second one... well, that could happen to even the best parent ever. Terrible accidents sometimes happen to people who are in no way at fault.

And then there's this shiat. Whiskey... Tango... Foxtrot...

Sounds to me she needs to be sterilized. This is appalling.

Yep. If you f*ck up this bad you shouldn't have the chance to do it again.

Not saying us westerners don't neglect children, I just mean that specific type of neglect, where the parent(s) were too absorbed in the internet to check on their children or care for them properly.Like that one couple that was so absorbed in an online game and their personas on there that they caused their child to die from malnutrition because they rarely got off the internet to feed them. I seem to remember the point of the game they were playing was to keep your virtual child alive, which made it even more "wtf" but I could be mixing up one article with another.

Ihaveanevilparrot:Like that one couple that was so absorbed in an online game and their personas on there that they caused their child to die from malnutrition because they rarely got off the internet to feed them. I seem to remember the point of the game they were playing was to keep your virtual child alive, which made it even more "wtf" but I could be mixing up one article with another.

Not saying us westerners don't neglect children, I just mean that specific type of neglect, where the parent(s) were too absorbed in the internet to check on their children or care for them properly.Like that one couple that was so absorbed in an online game and their personas on there that they caused their child to die from malnutrition because they rarely got off the internet to feed them. I seem to remember the point of the game they were playing was to keep your virtual child alive, which made it even more "wtf" but I could be mixing up one article with another.

THIS is why we need a license system similar to car licenses in order to determine if you are CAPABLE and FIT to actually raise the children you ppl pop out!

That sounds good but there's a difference between being capable of being a good parent and having the stamina to stick with it for 18 years. Especially the first couple of years. You're ON 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Benevolent Misanthrope:Takahashi, whose first child died a few days after birth and who lost another son in a fall from an apartment balcony, told police she had been using chatrooms, media reported.

OK - the first one was not her fault, obviously. The second one... well, that could happen to even the best parent ever. Terrible accidents sometimes happen to people who are in no way at fault.

And then there's this shiat. Whiskey... Tango... Foxtrot...

"One child's death is a terrible tragedy. Multiple child deaths is murder."

Can't remember the name of the ME who first said this, but it was after the myth that SIDS is hereditary was debunked.

Unless that first death took place in the hospital when she was nowhere near the baby or was 100% supervised with it, she is not off the hook. The balcony fall - could be a terrible accident. Could be she pushed him. Could be she left the balcony in an unsafe condition and left the child deliberately unsupervised. Unfortunately, no one will probably ever know.